Scarborough: Feds' Fox News Snooping 'Out of Control'

The Justice Department's secret seizure of phone records from a top Fox News reporter is "disturbing" and suggests the agency is "out of control," Joe Scarborough says.

"It would be one thing if you're monitoring MSNBC's number … but you talk about the Fox News bureau, that's what makes it so damning for this White House," Scarborough said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

"This is a Justice Department that seems out of control."

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Scarborough compared the Justice Department fingering of Fox reporter James Rosen, who it suggests is a "co-conspirator" for soliciting classified information about North Korea, to the case of Daniel Ellsberg.

"This is Daniel Ellsberg, like, 40 years later," Scarborough said, referring to the military analyst prosecuted for leaking a Pentagon study of Vietnam War strategies to The New York Times in 1971. The charges were later dropped.